with luck. That was about training, skill, desire. Now, please. Take the cross off. It's who I am. You don't even know what it means. This is the big show. And you gotta have someone watching your back. It's either kill or be killed. And you know what? I can't always be there. Hey, I'm tryin' to be Mr. Sensitive Guy. It's just--Ahh! I don't even know why I bother. All right. Wish me luck. Luck? What about desire? You seen Lieutenant Forbes? You know I got desire. Hey, Marshall... Luck. Mmm. Message from Earth Command. Their defenses are on line, sir, but-- They don't believe... they can withstand a Kilrathi battle group... without the support of the fleet. But they will fight, sir. Earth will never surrender. What's our status? We're running at one-hundred-and-ten percent. We've already lost three ships-- two at jump points, and one's reactor core melted down. Run at one hundred and twenty. Now, if Dibbles had the flying skills of a woman... he'd still be alive. You gotta be kidding me. Don't take it personally, Nugget. It's a question of estrogen. Women can out fly and outshoot men. It has been proven... that we can keep track of up to four enemy fighters. No, it takes balls, big balls... not ovaries, to maintain four enemy fighters... and that's a fact, Jack. All right, watch this. Con. Con. This is Delta Two requesting permission to land. Delta Two, you're clear to land. Delta Two, you're coming in too hot. Abort. I repeat, abort. Delta Two. Do you copy? Shit! Delta Two, you are inverted! Hoo hoo! Not anymore. Aaahhh! Now, what were you saying? Delta One! Whoo! What are you people lookin' at? Carry on about your business. Nothin' to see here, ladies and gentlemen. Whoo! Oh, now, that was a sweet three-sixty. Actually, that was a five-forty. Did you just do that to impress me? I'm just trying to redirect some of that testosterone. You're a total... maniac. Todd "Maniac" Marshall at your service...ma'am! Ha ha ha ha! Ohh, shit. You're needed on the bridge, Captain. I'll be right there. You don't want to be here right now. Just for you, sir. Trying to bribe me? No. No. Um... thanks, Angel. The flight boss would've brought us up on charges... if you hadn't said something. Yeah. Yeah, what the hell were you thinking? Look, I wasn't. Not with my head, anyway. You're one of my best pilots. I cannot afford to lose you. I was just... showing off a bit in front of Maniac. Maniac? Lieutenant Marshall. He has a new call sign. I see. Well, I hope it felt very good. Better...than... sex. Bullshit. Better than sex with myself. You just see that it never happens again. Sir? Can I talk to you? Yeah. Go ahead. My whole life... I've taken crap because I'm part Pilgrim. And I don't know why. Sit down. You're one of the last descendants of a dying race. Pilgrims were the first human space explorers and settlers. For five centuries... they defied the odds. They embraced space... and for that, they were rewarded... with the gift of a flawless sense of direction. They could feel magnetic fields... created by quasars and black holes... created by quasars and black holes... negotiate singularities... navigate not just the stars, but space-time itself. Like a Navcom A.I.? No, no. You've got it backwards. The billions of calculations each second... necessary to lead us through a black hole or a quasar... is the Navcom recreation of the mind of a single Pilgrim. Then why'd the war start? You spend so much time out here alone... you end up losing your humanity. When Pilgrims began to lose touch with their heritage... they saw themselves as superior to men. And in their arrogance... they chose to abandon all things human... and follow what they called their "destiny." Some say they believed they were gods. You believe they were gods? No. But I do believe they were touched by God. ------------------------------ Читайте также: - текст Чебурашка и Крокодил Гена на английском - текст Кудряшка Сью на английском - текст Вся президентская рать на английском - текст Эрагон на английском - текст Дама с собачкой на английском |